New reports warn of serious health woes for those those who don't get enough shut-eye. picked by karenben 12 months ago

JFK is the third worst airport on Earth to try and catch some shut-eye in, according to a newly released survey of 6,200 travelers by travel website The Guide to Sleeping in Airports. The airport's ranking is blamed on coldness, frequent P.A. announcements, TV monitors blaring CNN, bright lights, and overabundance of seats with armrests. picked by suebe 4 months ago

Late-night noise from spinning wind turbines on an outlying island of Taiwan may have killed 400 goats over the past three years by depriving them of sleep, an agricultural inspection official said on Thursday. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Behavioral techniques can actually cure chronic insomnia and studies have reported that between 70% and 80% of those who are treated with non drug methods experience improved sleep. picked by karenben 2 years ago

Apparently children that have sleeping problems can become hyperactive.

At first I thought DUH but the study actually says that less sleep can lead to more hyperactivity. picked by Ankabout 7 months ago

reasons you can use as an excuse to sleep anywhere picked by snowman7769 6 months ago

The amount of sleep postmenopausal women get — either too little or too much — could affect their risk of having a stroke, suggests new research. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

Sleep paralysis can be a terrifying experience for the near 50 percent of people who have had an episode. It's the middle of the night, your eyes are open, dark shapes are gathering around you, something has grabbed your feet, and you can't move. You can't even scream. picked by kakana 4 months ago

The culprit for the loss of libido is lack of sleep due to excessively long work hours and too much overtime, according to a study by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). picked by 1only 2 years ago

A big reason bad dreams offer insight into the architecture of dreams generally is that, as a host of studies have shown, most of our dreams are bad. Whether research subjects keep dream journals at home or sleep in research labs and are periodically awoken out of REM sleep, the results are the same: about three-quarters of the emotions described are negative. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

I get these all the time! “The usual explanation for sleep starts is that the loss of muscle tone at sleep onset is sometimes accompanied by the feeling of falling,” says Dr. Rosalind Cartwright, chairman of Behavioral Sciences at Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. “So it is reacted to by a sudden jerking of arms and legs to ‘save’ oneself.... read full post picked by maven 1 year ago

As many as one in five British couples sleep in separate beds. According to a recent survey, snoring, tossing and turning, and talking in your sleep were cited as the main irritants. Married couple Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton live in separate homes in London, linked by a single corridor. picked by Bornbad 7 months ago

Police found more than 8,000 pieces of women's clothing and lingerie in the home of a Japanese man who stole the items so he could sleep buried in them. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

EARLIER this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It described two Italian people who never truly slept. They might lie down and close their eyes, but read-outs of brain activity showed none of the normal patterns associated with sleep. Their behaviour was pretty odd, too. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

The French already enjoy a 35-hour work week and generous vacation. Now the health minister wants to look into whether workers should be allowed to sleep on the job. picked by suebe 3 years ago

This will make you think twice about where you decide to crash for a nap. picked by muppet 2 years ago

Article on the use of "sleep deprivation," a term we will now have to always render in quotes, as the irony of describing one sort of torture as a means of covering up three or four other kinds of torture is both diabolical and morbidly depraved. picked by theclansman 7 months ago

A German teenager accidentally climbed out of a fourth-floor window and fell 10 meters to the ground where he kept on sleeping, albeit with a broken arm and leg. picked by muppet 2 years ago

If you don't want this to happen... picked by Ellz 2 years ago

Some of the people on there seem to need more help than they can get from the internet. picked by muppet 1 year ago